Testimonials and Summary of MRF 2000 Roach Killer

Why is Boric Acid Roach Killer the Best Product?

No Resistance?

Roaches do not develop resistance to boric acid paste. It is so mild they don't realize they are in danger.

Cost Effective

It will generally cost several hundred dollars for an exterminator and they will try to sign you up for a monthly visit, in many cases. The cost of our roach bait is less than sixty dollars and will eliminate the roaches for a whole year. What makes the bait so attractive is that it really works with one application. It is safe to use and can easily be applied by virtually any homeowner that can use a spatula. Other types of gel baits are much more expensive to use and won't perform as well. There is hardly any product in the bait tubes and it is much more difficult to apply sparingly. Boric acid bait has much more control over the application process.

Recommended by Top Universities : Boric Acid Roach Bait

Many top universities recommend boric acid roach bait. The University of California, the University of Kentucky, and others recommend our bait product. Why? It is because it has been tested and proved in University lab tests to be effective. It is an added bonus that it is safe to use and the most cost effective approach.

Safety

Boric Acid is considered by the E.P.A. to be as dangerous as table salt. Many people like to call it a green product. It is a naturally occuring safe substance that happens to work really well on roaches. You can be assured that the safe formula won't harm you. Our only recommendation is please don't eat it. The flavor isn't made for humans (Joking!). For further information, please click on the safety link in the learning center. The main safety issue is that you shouldn't eat it (common sense). It has been our experience that pets are not attracted to it, but , of course, we can't guarantee the actions of every pet in the world (for safety pets should not eat it). The bait is most effective in areas of cracks and crevices that children and pets do not have access to and so correct application will keep you from wanting to eat it (joking again!).

Going Green

Going green is a revolution these days. It is so important to use products that are safe for humans and for the environment. If the mother earth is a priority for you, you will love our roach bait. It is a safe naturally occuring element that is also the best product to use. Gel and other insecticides are known to be much less safe and require a stronger chemical base to be used as insects gain resistance. Chemical plants release harmful toxins into the environment in unsafe ways. Our roach bait is very safe and very effective.

Our Formula is a Proprietary Formula

Bait paste is a proprietary formula made from boric acid. You can not buy bait paste at Home Depot and other retail stores. You can't get it from huge chemical corporations like Bayer or Dupont. You can get it here. The primary users of bait paste are pest control companies. Bait paste is even used by Orkin (the largest pest control company).

Easy To Apply

Bait paste is a thick white gel similiar to toothpaste. You apply the substance under sinks and counters and anywhere you think the roaches are going to be. The paste will attract and kill roaches for up to one year. The only tool you will need is a spatula or knife and perhaps a caulk gun.

Low Toxicity

The paste does not emit fumes and has low toxicity. Boric acid paste is much safer than many insecticides.

Kills The Nest

The best part is that the roaches take the boric acid paste home and feed it to their young. In effect, you can kill the whole colony. Methods that do not kill off the young will never work.

No Fumigants

There are obvious reasons to dislike fumigation. A good fumigation will cover everything in your home with poison.

If you are in an attached unit, fumigation may kill the roaches in your home, but it will not prevent the source of them. They will continue to come back until you get them at the source.

Fumigations are a last resort. Bait is safer, easier to use, and more effective. Comparing to Other products

Traps

Traps catch roaches. Traps, however, are not effective at roach elimination. According to entomologist, Stoy Hedges, who is also Director of Technical Services for Terminix International, "They capture them, but the research shows that total elimination of cockroaches using traps alone is very, very rare."

The main purpose of traps is to determine where the roaches are located. Place traps in several locations and see which ones get the most activity. This will help you determine where to place your efforts.

Insecticide Sprays

Roaches build up resistance to spray.

Residual Sprays

Residual sprays last for 2-4 weeks on treated areas. Areas typically sprayed are kitchens, carpet, bathrooms, and drapery.

One application will rarely, if ever, provide elimination. Residual and non residual sprays are often used together over a period of weeks to eliminate roaches.

Non Residual Sprays

Non residual sprays simply don't stick to surfaces for very long. They are meant for direct contact. These sprays are effective if you know where their nest is and can reach it.

Bait versus Dust

Boric acid dust is the most effective of the dust products. Dust is readily available at many retailers.

Some dust contains insecticides. Other dusts are based on silica aerogel or diatomaceous earth.

Some dust products are repellants and can be used to keep the critters out of places you don't want them. Dust repellants may be a good choice for infested apartment buildings (to keep roaches out of your individual unit).

Testimonials: Questions and Answers

Good Morning Kristy, I received my order yesterday and immediately started to put a trial bit out and saw the critters eating it. YIPPEE!!!! I have a question. What I put out has turned hard now since it has been out in the air. Will the bugs continue to eat it even though it is hard? I have no idea if roaches have teeth or strong jaws that they are able to actually bite into this once it is hard or not. I can't hardly wait until I get this all around inside the house. :) Thanks so much again. I will definitely be letting others know about your link too. Hugs, Debi

Answer: Dear Debi, since the roach bait dehydrates the roaches it does tend to dry out and that is ok. The good news is that cockroaches have really tough jaws and can chew through just about anything. This is to be expected and the roach bait is still effective.

Tip by Debi:

I just ordered a very cheap cake decorating kit for $1.98 each on Amazon.com to use to apply this in nooks and crannies.  It has 6 different tips which will be great for getting it in close to the corners, etc.  I don't know if your company would be interested in looking into this and contacting the company that I bought it from (I have no connection to them), but it may help to offer this sort of thing to people who really have no idea how they are really going to be able to put this around their homes.  It can be washed out each time.  I actually order 2 just to be on the safe side as they are plastic but I don't see anything happening to them as long as I wash them out completely each time. :)

Anwer: Dear Debi, that's a great idea to use the cake decorating kit. Most of us use a simple spatula, piece of cardboard, or putty knife, but that also works great.

Hi,

I have a roach infestation in the house that rivals one of the old Alfred Hitchcock movies.

There is also a cockroach colony under my upper front yard.

When I first arrived here from Canada in August 1998, I opened the door, turned on the foyer light, and cockroaches went running in all directions from the ceilings, walls and floors.

The house had been empty for a month and water gets into this basement when it rains. The landlord lied to me about the condition of the property and house.

My son and I lived in a motel for 2 weeks while I paid to have the rental fumigated.

The treatment did tone down the roaches for a while, then one or two would scurry away if I went into the kitchen at night. Roach motels, kept them somewhat in control.

The slum landlord was levied a heavy fine in August 2002 and ordered to bring his rentals up to code. I was the only tenant that paid on time. He found out I was house hunting and said to buy the house or be out in 30 days.

I couldn't find a short or long term rental that would allow my Borzoi show dogs inside and I NEVER leave my dogs outside when I am not home or in inclement weather. So I bought it.

The year after I bought the house I slipped on a bit of black ice the size of my boot. I have almost no memory of anything beginning a few weeks after the fall on Dec 23, 2003 to Jan. 2007.

At the time all the furniture in every room had been moved to the middle so the switches and plugs could be updated to 3 wire.

Concurrently I-beams were being installed in the basement. The walls were moving from all the water. Everything I couldn't fit in the middle of the basement was also upstairs.

I was unable to remember what I was doing long enough to finish anything. Putting an entire house back into order was beyond my abilities during that time and my son had moved to Brazil for a contract position.

I am very fortunate to once again be myself with only a few minor annoyances I can work around.

I find myself in the middle of a mess reminiscent of those hoarder shows on TV, and insult added to injury,the cockroaches are back as bad or worse than when I first arrived. It's a nightmare.

They are out 24/7. They fall off the cupboard doors when I open them. They get into the dishwasher so there is no place to keep the dishes clean. They are in the living room, even though I never bring food out of the kitchen except to eat outside or in the car. There is no room in the house where I do not see roaches.

I can't use any airborne insecticides. I have used Heloise's Roach bait recipe. It works but it dries out too fast and then they can't smell the onion in it.

Thre is a gel paste I bought a tube of at Ace and it has so many warnings I'm afraid to use it for fear it might kill my two cats that hunt the bugs and be

Your paste sound like it might be the same as the paste I saw on the Billy the Exterminator show. Except that paste was in a tube that fit into a caulk gun.

He applied small beads along all the ingress and egress cracks into the non-food containing cupboards and other places they didn't specify. Billy told the woman it would begin to kill the roaches within an hour.

I found the website for his families company and emailed them but they are probably swamped with emails. I never heard back.

I have 3 cats and 4 dogs. Two of the cats hunt the cockroaches. I am willing to crate them or perhaps I can find a friend who will take care of teh two hunters for a short time.

My area of expertise in real estate. At this time I'm just getting my new company off the ground finding and negtiating defaulted real assets from defaulted notes to res. and com REOs. I know very little about your area of expertise except that the airborne chemicals make it hard for me to breath. I have scarring and damage from repeated bouts of pneumonia as a toddler, not asthma, luckily. :-)

I need advice, reassurance and information on the paste you sell, on how to safely handle it, toxicity to pets and humans, exactly where to put the paste all over the house, if it comes in a tube or if it can be sucked into a large syringe. I'm sure I could get a 50 to 100ml syringe from my vet. This for ease of application and to so I don't have to touch it.

I need my home and my life back. The regular pest companies seem more interested in creating repeat customers than really wiping out an infestation. Plus they refuse to even entertain the possibility there could be a roach colony under my yard.

Which brings me back to the HUGE colony of cockroaches living under my upper front yard. I've mentioned this to several pest control companies and they all say cockroaches don't live underground.

I have seen them going into holes in the ground at the curb by the street. The first time I saw this a roach approx. 2" in length came running down the gutter, up onto the curb at my feet and into a hole in the ground I hadn't noticed before. .

I fetched a thin long stick to probe the hole. It went down at a greater than 45 degree angle to beyond the length of the stick, which was about 18" long. I have also seen roaches running down the driveway from the upper yard toward the house! Roaches have been around for millions of years. They do not have to live in a house.

This area used to be a huge farm with extensive black walnut orchards, Persimmons, and various vegetables. I have 100+year old black walnuts on my 1.33 acre yard, plus 2 persimmons and 3 Paw Paws and get garlic and onions every spring. :-)

Before that this entire subdivision area was a major camp ground for the local Indians due to a year round creek that used to be here and the watering hole that is still on this property.

The watering hole was also the first stop on the trail of the California/ Oregon wagon trains as they began their journey starting from downtown Independence, MO, which was one days journey from the waterhole.

Lots of food scraps and midden piles were here, probably for centuries. The remains of which may be underground. Fruit and nut trees, edible plants, other bugs and a year round water source.

The water is no just from the waterhole. The water table is quite high, just a few feet under ground at the back of the lot, which is the lowest part of the yard

During heavier rains the water comes half way to my knees in back and flows fast enough to take me off my feet. Apparently there are also crawdads under the ground at the back. I see little wet mud piles next to small holes in the grass at the back after a bigger storm.. My neighbors told me it was crawdads clearing the mud out of their homes. :-)

If I put this paste in the few outside roach tunnels I've found, do you think I might be able to get rid of the colony?

if there is one colony, is it probable there may be others in the area? Have you ever heard about something like this?

I've lived here since August 1998. I am convinced there is a colony there and I get the distinct impression this house is their food locker!

One other thing I almost forgot. There are fewer roaches in the house in the summer than in the winter. I've been watching these insects for most of a decade. It's a regular seasonal occurrence. The colder it is outside the more cockroaches I see in the house.

When it gets warm outside, the fewer I see in the house. and then these tiny ants with 90 degree bends in their antennae appear for a while. I'd rather have to deal with ants than roaches any day!!.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. I very, very greatly appreciate it.

Sincerely, Joyce

Answer:Dear Joyce,

Our product is the safest on the market; especially when applied properly. It can be toxic to people or animals that eat it, but we have found most animals are not attracted to it. Still, it is wisest to apply it in areas that children and pets do not have access to. Other products are much more toxic and can cause all kinds of problems. Here are our Application Instructions The best places are under sinks and behind appliances.

Roaches can live just about anywhere. They can live underground. Just as you have discovered they can live in large colonies and come in to infest your home. If you find a colony like this underground outside, you can purchase granule bait for outdoors and/or put boric acid dust into the nest. Our bait is the best choice for your indoor roach killer needs.

Roaches do not like cold weather and their reproduction goes down significantly with just a few degree drops in temperature. In many areas, roaches tend to die off in the winter due to its reproduction effects. However, it is true that they will try to come indoors if you have a colony living outside. In this case, treat the outdoor colony as well as the indoor one for total elimination.

It is crazy how a cat can find and catch a roach. It can be quite entertaining to see as the cat refelexes are amazing.

Thank you for your order, we wish you the best.

Sincerely,

Kristy Snow

Question: I just found a few roaches in my restaurant have no idea how they got there. My restaurant is very clean. Can you help and advice on what the best metod is to get them gone for good? Exterminators don't work is job security for them.I remember my ex-employer had them and they never got rid of them for good,thank you.

Answer: You make a good point. Many exterminators simply want the repeat business and since spraying is so inexpensive for the exterminator, they like to come back and do it monthly. It's good job security. If you eliminate all the problems with one application, your job is pretty much gone. Plus, bait cost is more and that makes it harder to sell since many people do not understand how superior bait is compared to sprays.

For a restaurant, a good bait is much better than spraying chemicals all over the place.Our product is limited to crack and crevice treatment in food handling areas. In other words, you need to place the bait much more carefully in a food envrionment.